Articles by John Upton
John Upton is a reporter at Climate Central.
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Crappy solar panels threaten industry growth
The New York Times reports on a rise in defective solar panels. Experts blame the problems on cost-cutting Chinese firms.
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Walmart fined $82 million for dumping poisons
Walmart employees weren't trained on how to handle returned pesticides and other hazardous liquids, so they dumped them down drains and into the trash.
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Former EPA chief Lisa Jackson takes a job at Apple
Jackson will join the tech giant as vice president for environmental initiatives, to coordinate green activity across the company.
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U.S. trees burned in British coal plants count as renewable energy. WTF?
The U.K. subsidizes the burning of American-grown wood in British coal power plants and somehow calls it "green." How can this be?
